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Finnish Anthropology Conference 2010 – Helsinki 11-12th May

Ideas of Value: Inquiries in Anthropology

Call for sessions and papers:

The annual Finnish Anthropology Conference, hosted by the Finnish  
Anthropological Society, is being held in Helsinki in May 2010 and  
proposals for sessions and individual papers are now being invited.  
The principal theme of the conference – Ideas of Value – introduces a  
notion which been employed in anthropology and related disciplines to  
illuminate economic, ethical, linguistic, aesthetic, and political  
aspects of the human experience. More recently, anthropologists have  
become interested in the linkages between different sets of values.  
These discussions, about ethical and economic value, for example, have  
sought to discover what seemingly opposite notions of value could have  
in common. Consequently, value is studied by moving through different  
spheres and categories of culture and society. This perspective  
complements an older, but still increasingly topical, approach which  
explores how the value of material objects or social relationships  
change as persons and things move from place to place.  The multiple  
meanings and uses of the value concept connect it to a wide variety of  
research topics: money and currencies, art and material culture,  
social movements and political values, ethics and religion, language  
and speech - just to mention a few examples. Exploration of the  
concept, therefore, is an important conference goal.

However, in order to embrace everyone interested in making contact  
with fellow researchers in the Nordic/Baltic region, we also encourage  
papers and sessions on any inquiry of value to anthropology and the  
human sciences more broadly. This is an opportunity for scholars in  
disciplines which connect with inquiries in anthropology to exchange  
ideas and approaches on an interdisciplinary basis –an exciting  
project – so we welcome participants from all associated fields.

Make use of the opportunity to meet with your Nordic and Baltic  
network partners: the event promises to be rewarding both  
scholastically and socially.

Abstracts of session content and individual papers (approximately 250  
words) are invited: the deadline for session proposal is 31st Jan.  
2010; for individual papers – 7th Feb.  Please submit these as word  
file attachments to [log in to unmask]

A second call for papers will be made when sessions are finalized in  
early March and will be posted on the Society’s web page:  
http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/en/home/

Proposed sessions to date:

Connecting theories of value
Visual art meets anthropology
Remembering and the present
Contemporary kinship and contemporary theories of kinship
Land rights and political ecology
The material body
Ethnicity and group formation


Confirmed Key Note Speakers:
Keith Hart (Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Goldsmiths &  
University of London)
Jukka Siikala (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Helsinki)
Martin Holbraad (University College London)

To assist with running costs, a conference fee of 50€ is payable by  
non-members of the Finnish Anthropological Society; alternatively,  
yearly membership of the Society is 35€ and includes delivery of the  
quarterly publication: “Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish  
Anthropological Society” (a possible publication venue for conference  
papers). Details of membership requirements are available on the  
Society’s web pages.


Marie-Louise Karttunen Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
P.O. Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38 D)
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland.

office tel. +358 9 19123846
fax. +358 9 19123006

http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/en/journal/

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